Hyde Park Jazz Festival gets $50,000 NEA grant for arts jobs on South and West sides
By Aaron Gettinger, staff writer
Feb 2, 2022
A grant from the National Endowment for the Arts grant will enable the Hyde Park Jazz Festival to put paid workers behind three initiatives beyond the borders of the neighborhood.
In an interview, festival Executive Director Kate Dumbleton said getting the $50,000 grant was a big surprise. The NEA got the money for the grant through the American Rescue Plan, the COVID-19 relief bill Congress passed last March; the funding this round was specifically tied to arts workers and artists.
“It’s kind of intended to be about increasing the number of people in the arts who are paid,” she explained.